Confession and Progress
The confessional Reformed approach to tradition (Tradition I), however, neither canonizes the past nor ignores it nor suspects it as an enemy, but rather treats it with the respect deserved by fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. This is the approach that J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) adopted. He rejected the idea that the Reformed confessions are an obstacle to doctrinal progress...
Scott Clark. Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice (Phillipsburgs, New Jersey: P&R Publishing, 2008), 0